“Marco Polo was an immigrant (yes he was) Columbus was an immigrant (yes he was) Even America was named after an immigrant… … YES HE WAS“
Wyclef Jean has serenaded immigrants (legal or otherwise) through their plights since his days as a reFugee himself many great years of world music and hip hop ago. Shout-out to my blog-mate for putting me onto this… then playing it non-stop till it became a throwback. Just a few hours ago though, he announced that he’ll be coming back to his international roots with a 3rd installation of his electrifying and eclectic Carnival series
Until then, ride dirty on Wyclef’s elephant to this obviously Bollywood-influenced Immigration cut:
We can’t turn a screen on without being reminded that lunatics are determined blow us up at any moments, sometimes in the most cartoonishly cliche ways possible.
Let’s recount this morning’s Egypt Air fiasco’s details, for instance. Hijacking? CHECK. Plane? CHECK. Terrified Hostages? TRIPLE CHECK – errr well, sort of. One British fellow just couldn’t handle how cliche this Die Hard (or Speed) quasi-villain was.
He just HAD TO GET A SELFIE with this “terrorits”… and guess what? HE DID
Say “Cheeeeez”… fine, I’ll say “Cheez”, you say “Boom” or whatever.
“I figured if his bomb was real I’d nothing lose anyway, so took a chance to get a closer look at it.”
Ben was one of the last 3 British hostages left on the plane after the others were released, and the pilot locked himself in the cockpit, and climbed out the window.
“He eventually let virtually all the passengers leave, but I was left behind with two other Brits… After about half an hour at Larnaca I asked for a photo with him as we were sitting around waiting. I thought, ‘Why not? If he blows us all up it won’t matter anyway” Ben recounted the events for The Sun.
If you’re a stickler for the important details, you’re very much like Ben’s mother who pointed it out upon hearing the news of his idiot/awesome son.
“All we can say is that the picture is clearly not a selfie as everyone has been describing it,” Pauline Innes told The Guardian. “You can clearly see that it is not Ben who is taking the picture. He’s in it but he’s not taking it.”
Ben and Siya Blog Shit 